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Staff Writer Grace Augustine Moves On. Next Stop: Oxford
In January of 2008 Rob welcomed Grace Augustine as a Staff Writer for NextBillion.net. I remember it clearly, as I had just met Grace and many of her colleagues in Ann Arbor while attending the 2008 edition of the Net Impact Forum at the University of Michigan. Today, we wish her the best as she prepares to start a new stage at Oxford.
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Will Surekha Dial an Ambulance?
A tiny bead of sweat ran down the ridge of my nose. It reached the end, teetered for a split second, then dropped quietly onto the doctor?s desk. I sat behind the desk, inside the Vijay Nagar Women of India clinic, which is tucked into a government-built housing project in the Bandra East area of Mumbai.
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Global Social Venture Competition: Weighing the Health of Children in Mali
Around one in five children in Mali dies before his or her fifth birthday. Imagine preventing half of these 117,000 annual deaths with a few cell phones and scales. I interviewed the founders of Pesinet - a new organization and 2009 GSVC finalist - and I’m excited about the ability of their new micro-insurance program to accomplish just that.
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Philanthropy, Development and Enterprise
Last week I had the opportunity to attend the Global Philanthropy Forum for the first time, and although it’s been a few days already, I would like to share some thoughts on what I saw and heard. The nexus between development and enterprise was discussed broadly throughout the conference...
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The Social Enterprise Space is Alive in India: Sankalp 09
The social enterprise space is alive and well in India. This is my overarching conclusion having spent all day Tuesday at the inaugural Sankalp Forum, hosted by Intellecap in Mumbai.Sankalp - which means "pledge" or "determination" in English - focused on the role of business in driving social change.
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Go Beyond Profit
Are you ready to go beyond profit, to explore the range of social enterprise? If you’re reading NextBillion.net, the answer is probably yes. In this case, you’re in luck - a new magazine just launched, targeting this very niche (beyond profit, beyond charity - the missing middle.)
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Revisiting the Avon Lady Poverty Reduction Debate
Oxford business professor Linda Scott is trying to verify something that many BoP business models are based on: the idea that becoming an Avon lady could help poor women in developing nations get out poverty. Her research in South Africa, which is not yet complete, indicates the Avon model might be what some need to get out of poverty...
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Global Social Venture Competition Finals: “All it takes is one person with a dream”
Last Friday 15 finalists from India, the U.S., New Zealand, France, England, Indonesia and Thailand gathered at U.C. Berkeley’s Haas School of Business to compete in the Global Social Venture Competition (GSVC). The teams presented business plans that were financially viable and make a social impact to an expert panel of judges.
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